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Pennsylvania

Constitution · Chapter 5
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§ 1. Unified judicial system.
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§ 1. The Supreme Court.
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§ 2. Supreme Court.
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§ 2. The Superior Court.
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§ 3. Superior Court.
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§ 3. Commonwealth Court.
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§ 4. Commonwealth Court.
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§ 4. The courts of common pleas.
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§ 5. Courts of common pleas.
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§ 5. Orphans' court judges.
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§ 6. Community courts; Philadelphia Municipal Court.
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§ 6. Courts of common pleas in multi-county judicial districts.
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§ 7. Justices of the peace; magisterial districts.
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§ 7. Community courts.
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§ 8. Other courts.
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§ 8. Justices, judges and justices of the peace.
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§ 9. Right of appeal.
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§ 9. Associate judges.
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§ 10. Judicial administration.
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§ 10. Retention election of present justices and judges.
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§ 11. Judicial districts; boundaries.
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§ 11. Selection of president judges.
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§ 12. Qualifications of justices, judges and justices of the peace.
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§ 12. Magistrates, aldermen and justices of the peace.
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§ 13. Election of justices, judges and justices of the peace; vacancies.
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§ 13. Magisterial districts.
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§ 14. Judicial Qualifications Commission.
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§ 14. Magisterial districts.
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§ 15. Tenure of justices, judges and justices of the peace.
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§ 15. Prothonotaries, clerks of courts, clerks of orphans' courts.
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§ 16. Compensation and retirement of justices, judges and justices of the peace.
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§ 16. Courts and judges.
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§ 17. Prohibited activities.
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§ 17. Courts.
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§ 18. Suspension, removal, discipline and other sanctions.
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§ 18. Judges.
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§ 19. President judges.
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§ 20. President judges; court divisions.
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§ 21. Inferior courts.
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§ 22. Causes, proceedings, books and records.
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§ 23. Judicial Qualifications Commission.
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§ 24. Judicial discipline.
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§ 25. Dispensing with trial by jury.
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§ 26. Writs of certiorari.
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§ 27. Judicial districts.
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§ 28. Referendum.
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§ 29. Persons specially admitted by local rules.
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